Chapter 22: Booming Business, A Sudden Ambush by Hungry Wolves!
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The blueprint for the Basic Sharpening Stone, as the name suggests, allows one to craft a basic sharpening stone. Its purpose is to restore a weapon’s durability!
Indeed, in the world of gods and demons, every weapon, no matter how high its rank, has durability.
At first, no one paid much attention to this. But about seven days after arriving in this world, some were suddenly warned that their weapon’s durability was too low and about to break, urging them to use a basic sharpening stone to restore it.
Given how precious weapons were at the time, no one wished to see their own weapon ruined. Yet, no one knew where to obtain a basic sharpening stone.
In the end, many could only helplessly watch their weapons turn to scrap and tearfully buy new ones.
As a result, weapon prices soared uncontrollably.
About a month later, a man named Li Mubai acquired the blueprint for the basic sharpening stone and began producing them.
He quietly crafted the stones and placed them on the trading platform for sale.
When the basic sharpening stones appeared, everyone scrambled for them—demand far outstripped supply.
Thanks to this small blueprint, Li Mubai instantly rose into the top hundred on the wealth rankings of the gods and demons world, amassing astonishing riches.
Later, using this wealth, Li Mubai founded the Star Scar Guild, which became a top-tier force ten years later.
Now, in less than two days, Ye Chuyun had obtained a blueprint for the basic sharpening stone.
How could Ye Chuyun not be excited?
The materials required for crafting the basic sharpening stone were simple—only one kind:
A “Sturdy Stone”!
The higher the level of the ferocious beasts fought, the faster a weapon’s durability would deplete.
Thus, the price of sharpening stones only rose.
Whenever “Sturdy Stones” were listed on the trading platform, as long as the price wasn’t ridiculous, they would be snapped up instantly.
Previously, Ye Chuyun could buy over 500 “Sturdy Stones” for just 8 divine demon coins—a scenario impossible in the later stages of the gods and demons world.
Even a single “Sturdy Stone” could sell for at least 5 divine demon coins initially, and later it skyrocketed to an outrageous 20 coins.
Currently, Ye Chuyun possessed nearly 2,000 “Sturdy Stones,” having spent less than 30 divine demon coins in total.
In other words, he had spent 30 coins to acquire materials worth tens of thousands of divine demon coins.
Originally, Ye Chuyun planned to hoard as many “Sturdy Stones” as possible before the basic sharpening stone was officially introduced, intending to sell them later for a huge profit.
But now that he had obtained the blueprint for the basic sharpening stone before Li Mubai, he changed his mind.
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No matter how profitable “Sturdy Stones” were, they couldn’t compare to the earnings from basic sharpening stones.
If he didn’t capitalize on this opportunity, his rebirth would have been in vain.
However, crafting a basic sharpening stone required not only “Sturdy Stones” but also “Forging Tools”!
This was like alchemy needing an alchemy furnace.
To produce a basic sharpening stone, the help of forging tools was indispensable.
But this posed no difficulty for Ye Chuyun.
He knew exactly where to get the “Forging Tools”—at the next railway station.
As soon as he reached level 5 and took the train to the next location, he could find a way to acquire the forging tools.
With this in mind, Ye Chuyun decisively learned the blueprint for the basic sharpening stone.
All he needed next was the forging tools, and he could start crafting the stones.
Just then, a gentle breeze stirred, easing Ye Chuyun’s tense nerves.
[Notification: A treasure chest has been detected within one meter. Please search carefully.]
“Damn, I almost forgot about the treasure chest,” Ye Chuyun muttered, patting his head and beginning to search the ruins.
He ransacked nearly every inch of the debris but found no trace of the chest.
Yet, the system’s notification was clear—the chest was within one meter. There had to be something.
Suddenly, Ye Chuyun had a spark of inspiration and turned his gaze to a Golden Spirit Fruit tree nearby.
“Could the chest be hidden under this tree?”
To confirm his guess, Ye Chuyun decisively swung his Stormblade and chopped down the tree.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
With a few strokes, he felled the tree nearly three meters thick.
No wonder this was a tier-two weapon—the quality far surpassed the Green Claw Machete.
Ye Chuyun fondly caressed the Stormblade.
As the Golden Spirit Fruit tree toppled, Ye Chuyun spotted a bronze chest hidden inside the hollow trunk.
Turns out, part of the tree was hollow, and the chest was concealed within.
“Well, you’re quite the hide-and-seeker,” Ye Chuyun murmured and swiftly opened the bronze chest.
Inside were:
500 Divine Demon Coins
3 Skill Stones: Can upgrade any skill
3 Enhancement Stones: Can strengthen equipment
A Tier-One Spell Scroll: Storm Whirlwind
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Ye Chuyun curled his lips.
No skill books, no special items or equipment.
No matter how high the drop rate, if the chest contained only these few things, there was nothing he could do.
“Sigh, if only there were several Xuan Iron chests instead.”
Having found the chest, Ye Chuyun finally relaxed and felt a bit hungry.
He bought some roasted meat and sat down to rest.
Meanwhile, the chat channel remained lively.
Cai Kun: “Hahaha, this double energy is awesome! Just by killing a few Green Claw Beasts, I leveled up!”
Liu Daqiang: “Yeah, and resources have increased everywhere—treasures everywhere!”
Ye Chuyun: “I encourage everyone to gather more resources! You can sell them to me—I have plenty of good stuff. Look at this.”
Ye Chuyun: “[Green Claw Machete +5], [Spirit Necklace].”
Cai Kun: “Whoa, big shot—no, Dad! Dad, where did you get so much gear?!”
Wang Gang: “Big shot, so much equipment—selling?”
Lei Chen: “Whoa, a +5 Green Claw Machete? Suddenly my own feels worthless. This +5 is like my dream weapon!”
Wang Yun: “Spirit Necklace, wow, I really want that.”
Huang Peng: “Ahhh, big shot, don’t tempt me—I’m going now to dig spirit grass and mine ores for you!”
After posting the equipment, Ye Chuyun closed the chat channel and opened the trading platform.
He listed the three replaced pieces of gear at 999 divine demon coins each.
He didn’t really expect anyone to buy them now.
His goal was to fish for rare items by putting out these items for sale.
Then, he bought a large batch of “Sturdy Stones” and dozens of spirit grass.
Now he had gathered the materials to make Body Tempering Pills and Strength Pills.
Ye Chuyun immediately took out his pill furnace to start refining.
As he waited for the pills to brew, his eyes suddenly flashed.
He sharply looked toward a certain direction.
On the map, a red dot was rapidly approaching his location.
Suddenly, in the dead of night within the forest, a giant black wolf emerged.
Its eerie green eyes were fixed on the corpses of three leader-class ferocious beasts among the ruins, drooling steadily from its mouth.